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Versuch einer geognostisch-botanischen Darstellung der Flora der Vorwelt

by: Šternberg, Kašpar, Graf, 1761-1838, author

Publication date: 1820

Topics: Natural history collections, Paleobotany, Trees, Fossil, Šternberg, Kašpar, Graf, 1761-1838 -- Natural history collections -- Catalogs, Trees, Fossil -- Germany

Publisher: Leipzig und Prag : In Kommission im Deutschen Museum

Collection: biodiversity

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: Latin; German

Volume: T.1-2 (1820-1838)

Item Size: 650.2M

2 volumes in 1 (various pagings), 137 leaves of plates in various foliations : 38 cm

Issued in eight parts (Heften) between 1820 and 1838; for publication dates of the individual Heften, see Stafleu

Includes descriptions of fossil plant specimens personally owned by Šternberg, which later became part of the collections of the Národní muzeum in Prague

Parts 7 and 8 edited by Karel Bořiwoj Presl and Joseph August Corda

The plates are signed by various illustrators: E. Anton Auinger; Franz Both; Imances[?] Buckland; A. Corda; De Berghes; Christ. Hohe; Mary Morland; M.A. Nicholson; J.D. Preyssler; Jos. Rössert; Ig. Schmedla; F. Simon; James Sowerby; Stoll et Sandler; and Joseph Zehner

The following engravers are identified on the plates: Jac. Sturm; and A. Corda

The frontispiece to volume 2 is signed: Fr. Schier lithog.; druck bei Nachek

"Tentamen florae primordialis": pages [I]-XLII (6th group)

"Skizzen zur vergleichenden Phytotomie vor- und jeztweltlicher Pflanzen-Stämme, von A.C.I. Corda ..." (pages [2], LXXI, 12th and 13th groups) has special half-title page

Pagination: 24, 33, [1], 39, [1], XLII, 48, [10], 79, [4], 82-220, [2], LXXI, [1] pages

The plates are numbered [volume 1]: I-LIX, Tab. A-E; [volume 2]: I-XXVI, XXVIIA-B, XXVIII-LXVIII, Tab. A-B

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Antiquariaat Junk; purchase;

Cleal, Christopher J., Maureen Lazarus and Annette Townsend. "Illustrations and illustrators during the 'Golden Age' of palaeobotany, 1800-1840," in History of palaeobotany: selected essays, edited by A.J. Bowden. (Geological Society special publication no. 241). London: Geological Society, 2005. Pages [41]-61

Addeddate: 2018-09-27 00:34:22

Associated-names: Presl, K. B. (Karel Bořiwoj), 1794-1852, editor; Corda, August Karl Joseph, 1809-1849, editor, illustrator, engraver; Corda, August Karl Joseph, 1809-1849. Skizzen zur vergleichenden Phytotomie vor- und jeztweltlicher Pflanzen-Stämme; Fleischer, Friedrich, 1794-1863, bookseller; Teubner, B. G. (Benediktus Gotthelf), 1784-1856, printer; Auinger, E. Antonin, approximately 1800-1821, illustrator; Both, Franz, 1792-, illustrator; Buckland, Imances, illustrator; De Berghes, illustrator; Hohe, Nicolaus Christian, 1798-1868, illustrator; Morland, Mary, 1797-1857, illustrator; Nachek, printer of plates; Nicholson, Michael Angelo, -1842, illustrator; Preyssler, Johann Daniel, 1768-1839, illustrator; Rössert, Joseph, 1808-1876, illustrator; Schmedla, Ignác, 1797-1839, illustrator; Simon, Frédéric-Emile, 1805-1886, illustrator; Šír, František Václav, 1804-1864, lithographer; Sowerby, James de Carle, 1787-1871, illustrator; Zehner, Joseph, active 19th century, illustrator; Sturm, Jakob, 1771-1848, engraver; Spurnny, Johann, printer; Stoll et Sandler, illustrator; Gottlieb Haase Söhne, printer; papermaker; Verlag der Wittwe Ernst Brenk, printer; Deutsches Museum, publisher; Národní muzeum v Praze, repository